On this stroll round the city we'll be looking at a whole pantheon of literary luminaries, some Manchester-born, some Manchester-adopted and some just passing through. Expect Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Val McDermid, Anthony Burgess, Karl Marx, Dodie Smith, Maisie Mosco, JB Priestley, Les Dawson, Howard Jacobson, Carol Ann Duffy and many others all having their say, displaying Manchester’s multi-cultural melting pot of literature.

As JB Priestley said in 1937, ‘Perhaps the secret of the Manchester character is that it is nine-tenths hard north country grit, solid Lancashire bone and muscle and brain, plus a remaining tenth, acting as a leaven, of liberal-minded and enterprising foreign influence, a contribution from Europe.’

There'll even be some poetry of a stirring nature and perhaps some nonsense poetry too.

The price is £10 and the meeting point is outside St Ann's Church, M2 7LF.